Em uma época futura um jovem (Casper Van Dien), após graduar-se, quer se alistar nas forças armadas para tornar-se um "cidadão" e deixar de ser um mero civil. Após descobrir que sua cidade natal, Buenos Aires, não existe mais em virtude de um ataque de insetos alienígenas do planeta Klendathu ele toma a decisão de fazer parte da grande ofensiva terrestre contra estes insetos (que são gigantescos e às vezes medem 30 metros) no planeta deles.
Paródia a «Top Gun» em que um piloto de combate talentoso mas instável tem de ultrapassar os fantasmas do seu pai e salvar uma missão sabotada por fabricantes de armas ambiciosos.
Após a pressão de uma senadora (Anne Bancroft), de ideias aparentemente feministas, uma oficial (Demi Moore) torna-se a única mulher em um grupo de elite da Marinha Americana e no treinamento terá de provar que pode suportar semanas de tortura física e emocional, com poucos acreditando que ela possa vencer. Na verdade alguns altos oficiais do governo, e até mesmo a parlamentar que lhe apoiou, estão torcendo pelo seu fracasso.
Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than he thought it would be. He braves it through and comes home a better man. He then has to deal with the real world, and never gives up no matter what the odds.
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
Gunnery Sergeant Jim Moore is one of the toughest Drill Instructors on Parris Island. But he's got a thorn in his side: Pvt. Owens, who always seems to foul up when the pressure's on. Convinced that "there's a man underneath that baby powder," Sgt. Moore drives Owens to the point of desertion. Making things worse, Capt. Anderson has given Moore three days to make the scared private into Marine material, "or I'll personally cut the lace off his panties and ship him out!" Adding to the pressure, Moore also juggles a budding romance with a shop girl.
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?